Bunnings second UK store opened just before Easter at Hatfield Road, St Albans. GTN Xtra paid a visit this week to see how the Bunnings concept had been delivered in a much smaller footprint than the first store at Griffiths Way, St. Albans...
After a long period of great gardening weather which continued over the Easter weekend this year, the sales data analysed by GTN for Bestsellers gives us the best indication of the cost of losing a whole day’s trading at a time when our customers are in the mood to decorate their gardens and prepare for the summer...
Woodstock Chimes have a strong commitment to precise tuning. The company are so proud of the music made by their chimes, all the metal-tubed musically tuned chimes come with a Lifetime Tuning Guarantee...
Pictured: Woodstock Chimes UK’s best-selling Bells of Paradise – Large, Pacific Blue is tuned to an ancient Chinese scale.
Smiemans Projecten has transformed a traditional garden centre into an inspiring shopping environment of the well-known chain Avoca in Ireland, Dublin...
Westland’s ‘Be Sure with Gro-Sure’ campaign returns to TV screens this week as part of an ad campaign designed to reach 14 million consumers between now and the end of May...
Martin Stewart, Managing Director of the Dorset based Stewarts Garden Centres, achieved a lifelong ambition to sit the cockpit of a World War Two de Havilland Mosquito bomber, the type that his father flew in action with the RAF’s 82 Squadron in Burma...
Chessington Garden Centre is using an innovative Microsoft system to launch into new areas including garden design and a new 'click and collect' service...
The team from Scotsdales Cambridge couldn't hold their Plant-a-thon on Garden Re-Leaf Day because they were organising and taking part in The Great Garden Re-Leaf Day Greenfingers Walk but it didn't stop them from staging the event at a later date...
EGO Power+, the specialists and leaders of cordless technology, is now the proud sponsor of Britain’s Best Lawn, leading the garden tools revolution that is tackling petrol tools head on...
Last week we brought you pictures of flowers leaving the Keukenhof in Holland destined for the Vatican City in Rome. Here are pictures of the displays created...
HTA President Adam Wigglesworth confirmed to GTN Xtra last week that the board of the HTA were not in a rush to find a new CEO to replace Carol Paris...
Sales of plants led the way during the first week of Easter 2017 – they were the only GTN Bestsellers index to increase week on week. Alyssum saw the highest percentage growth...
Fern sales have seen a surge at Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford as it announces a 44% year on year increase. Adam Dunnett, Sales and Marketing Director, said: “It’s fantastic news."
Sales of tomato plants continue to grow and this week’s analysis of all plants sold in the GTN Bestsellers database showed that tomato plants outsold Pelargoniums (pot and bedding geraniums) by 12%...
Ten percent less trading hours and a 10% drop in sales volumes means growing media sales have slowed. Westland Gro-Sure Smart Cover (100 litres) was the highest new entry...
Selnews, has been trading continuously for the past 47 years. Alan Seviour and David Maguire the owner/managers have been supplying garden centres with books for over 35 years...
It has been a flourishing year for the floriculture industry. Royal FloraHolland traded a total of 12.5 billion products in 2016, an increase of 0.3%...
Thirteen specialists will be throwing open the doors of their nurseries for the premier commercial orchid event Orchid Inspiration Days from 6 to 13 June...
